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The Bouncing Souls responded to rumors about local bands getting kicked off their latest UK tour. Here’s what the band had to say about it on MySpace:

We have been hearing a lot of rumors and headlines about our recent UK tour and the situation with local bands and we wanted to clear up things from our end. Back in november we decided to come to the UK and Ireland for a 2-week tour and we invited our old friends from THE DRAFT to join us. In addition, we thought it would be cool to have a package tour and had met TAT on Warped Tour in the US last summer and asked them if they wanted to rock with us. We understand that in a lot of places there might be cool local bands to play with (and this is what we have done the last 10 years….) but we just wanted to try something new. The tour was booked this way with every promoter, but in some places the promoters did not read the tour agreements and asked local bands to play…only to cancel them later. We agree, this sucks…but we would never have asked for a local band to be dropped from a show once they were asked. this was all done without our knowledge. The only place that we became aware of the situation was in Liverpool (and extra apologies go out to the DOWN AND OUTS, who we hear are totally great) but there have been some suggestions that it might have happenned elsewhere. The only stop we were aware of this happening was in Brighton, where the promoter told us ahead of time that he had asked a local band to play before he read the agreement and we let them play.